** Description changed:
Binary package hint: unity
+
+ 1. install unity 3.8.14
+ 2. run unity --reset
+ -> for people getting the crash, it shouldn't anymore (just not reset)
+
Running "unity --reset" results in a NameError crash.
I do not have the exact backtrace (I can get it if nescessary), but it
was very short, and very obvious that it will happen if you look at the
code:
http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~unity-
team/unity/trunk/view/head:/tools/unity.cmake#L72
72 try:
73 current_profile_schema =
client.get_schema("/apps/compizconfig-1/current_profile")
74 except GError, e:
75 print "WARNING: environment is incorrect: %s\nDid you just try
to reset in a tty?" % e
There is a NameError on GError, since GError has not been imported. Some
experimentation/googling suggests it should be glib.GError.
It seems that bug #753528 was never fixed at all, since this code was
introduced to fix that bug (revision 1154.1.1) , but if it had been
tested even once this issue would have been located (unless this was a
caused by a bad merge and an import being lost)
Further, even when you fix that issue, you get another exception 2 lines
later - something like "AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute
'get_string'". I'm guessing this could be a change in what type of
values are actually returned.
I had to change the line:
- if current_profile_gconfvalue.get_string() == 'unity':
+ if current_profile_gconfvalue.get_string() == 'unity':
to
- if current_profile_gconfvalue == 'unity':'
+ if current_profile_gconfvalue == 'unity':'
(I think this is bug 737320 - but the bug I'm reporting is different
from that).
Then it finally worked.
Please note, in trying to reproduce this, I had some issues, I think
related to whether unity was running or not. The primary issue that
caused all this was unity failing to run or something (I ended up in a
session with no interface at all, and had to google to try to work out a
fix). So I can try to reproduce backtraces if you want, but it might be
tricky, and just inspection of the code reveals the bug.
** Changed in: unity
Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released
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unity --reset crashes with NameError
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